Show HOW THEY ARE PROTECTED I Mr Andrew Carnegie the protected millionaire iron manufacturer o Pennsylvania is very much worried by the fear that the tariff will be reduced somewhat He does not trouble about himself but his heart bleeds when he thinks of the suffering that a reduction of the tariff will bring upon the poor laboring people Mr Carnegie is a man who boasted that his profits were 1500000 a year he is also the man who cut down the wages of his men to such a point that Americans could not lie on what he paid them and then he imported Hungarians who work in the mines and mills for 90 cents a day Well a Mr 0 E Wheeler of Toledo Ohio has been on a tour of observation among the protected pro-tected industries of Western Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania He visited the mines and mills and workshops and got all the information informa-tion possible concerning the condition of the working people Among other places he took in the furnaces and coke ovens between Scotdale and Mount Pleasant which are owned by Friok Co and are operated by contract labor imported from Europe It may be remarked re-marked that the Co II of the firm is Mr Andrew Carnegie who is shedding shed-ding so many tears over the gloomy outlook for the working people when the Democrats reduce the tariff What Mr Wheeler saw at those furnaces let us tell in his own words Women working at furnaces who to all appearances were unsexed They were Hungarians working alongside of their husbands and countrymen and lost to every idea of propriety or rudest sensitiveness 1 They were clothed with a short kilt and pair of boots and sj far as the eye could judge that was all From waist up they were as naked as the cold truth In all the habits of daily life with men they were as menThis This is but one of the series of pictures which are painted all through the iron and coal region of Pennsylvania The employers are reveling in wealth while the miserable creatures who labor for them are little above the animals Truly protection is a great thing |